Electric shoe.



No. 741,623. PATENTED 001?. 20, 19 03.

' J. s. BUSKY, JR.

ELECTRIC SHOE.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 18, 1908.

N0 MODEL.

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JOHN SAMUEL BUSKY, JR., OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.

ELECTREC SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,623, dated October20, 1903.

Application filed July 18, 1903. Serial No. 166,176. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I,J0HN SAMUEL BUSKYJ r. a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, county of Kings, State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Electric Shoes, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the drawingsaccompanying and forming part of the same.

My invention has for itsobject to provide a shoe which will deliver acurative current of electricity to the foot of the wearer; and to thisend it consists of the novel features and combinations hereinafterdescribed, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring now to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a shoeembodying my invention, showing the storage battery in the heel indotted lines. Fig. 2 is a plan of the sole looking downward, the upperof the shoe being in section. Fig. 3 is a side view of the tree or lastused for charging the storage-cell in the shoe, the primary batterybeing shown in dotted lines. Fig. dis a bottom plan View of Fig. 3.

In the shoe itself, preferably in the heel, I locate a smallstorage-cell 1, of any convenient form, and connect its poles toelectrodes 2 and 3, made of metal and lying flush with the surface ofthe inner sole. Toward the opposite end of the shoe are two moreelectrodes 4 5, connected to the former by wires 6 7. The poles 2 4 areof course insulated from the poles 3 5.

When the electrodes are in contact with the foot of the wearer, a gentlecurrent will flow through the foot from poles 2 t to 3 5, tending toprevent fatigue and to exert a curative eifect for rheumatism, 850.

When the battery has become exhausted, it may be charged from anysuitable source; but I prefer to employ a primary battery 8 in the lastor tree 9 having electrodes or contacts 1O 11, which latter are solocated on the lower surface of the tree as to be in con tact with theelectrodes 2 3 in the sole of the shoe. Current will therefore flow intoand be stored in the cell 1 whenever the tree is placed in the shoe.

My invention is of course capable of various embodiments, and 1therefore do not consider myself limited to that herein specificallydescribed; but

What I claim is- The combination with a shoe, a storage-cell in the heelthereof, and exposed electrodes on the inner sole, of a last or tree, aprimary battery carried by the same, and electrodes adapted to makecontact with the electrodes on the inner sole when the last or tree isinserted in the shoe, whereby the storage-cell will be charged, as setforth.

JOHN SAMUEL HUSKY, JR.

Witnesses:

W. C. Isl-1AM, 0. Watts.

